From the Wikipedia entry for Stephen Colbert...
Colbert's mother Lorna Colbert relocated the family downtown to the more urban environment of East Bay Street. By his own account, he found the transition difficult, and did not easily make new friends in his new neighborhood. Instead, he developed a love of science fiction and fantasy novels, and became an avid fan of the fantasy role-playing games, especially Dungeons & Dragons, a pastime to which he would later partially attribute his interest in acting and improvisation.
Colbert is an avid enthusiast of Lord of the Rings and the fantasy game Dungeons & Dragons, a fascination that began in high school. When Viggo Mortensen appeared on The Daily Show, a sound-clip was played of Colbert reciting the detailed lineage and personal history of Mortensen's character, Aragorn. To reciprocate, Mortensen sent Colbert a platter of Lord of the Rings characters molded in chocolate. Stewart quipped that the gift would give Colbert a "four-hour erection." Later, on June 7, 2006, Colbert noticed that CNN had, in its coverage of June 6 (6/6/06) put the picture of a Balrog in place of a devil. He spent a minute describing the difference between devils and Balrogs: "A devil is a fallen angel who refused to follow God and followed Satan into Hell; Balrogs are Maiar who refused to follow Eru and followed Morgoth into Thangorodrim". This is not entirely true, however, as Thangorodrim was not actually built at the time of Morgoth's expulsion (in actuality, they followed him into Udun). Colbert confessed his embarrassment upon realizing this on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on July 12, 2006.
On that same program he also mentioned attending GenCon and spending time with Gary Gygax.
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